The company plans to announce Wednesday that it will indemnify its Linux customers against potential legal actions by SCO Group.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. is standardizing its software products on an open-source database to store and manage non-relational data.
Sleepycat Software Inc. will announce on Wednesday that Sun, of Palo Alto, Calif., has chosen Sleepycat's Berkeley DB database as the embedded database within its software line. The database is incorporated in key components of the Sun Java Enterprise System, formerly known as Project Orion, and the Sun Java Enterprise Desktop System, formerly known as Project Mad Hatter, both launched on Tuesday.
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Sleepycat Software Inc. will announce on Wednesday that Sun, of Palo Alto, Calif., has chosen Sleepycat's Berkeley DB database as the embedded database within its software line. The database is incorporated in key components of the Sun Java Enterprise System, formerly known as Project Orion, and the Sun Java Enterprise Desktop System, formerly known as Project Mad Hatter, both launched on Tuesday.
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A new Linux gaming website is online
The wireless development landscape differs from the wired world in a number of ways. For one thing, the dominance of handheld device manufacturers and proprietary OS makers has meant that open source projects for wireless connectivity have been slow to take off. But now this sector is showing some signs of life. This article explains both the delays and the brightening future.
Open-source software has underlying source code that may be freely seen, changed and redistributed--in sharp contrast with proprietary software from companies such as Microsoft or Oracle.
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Novell said it plans to use newly acquired systems management tools instead of including its own ZENworks technology in a Linux software package that's due to go into open beta-testing next month.
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OSNews reports that MandrakeSoft S.A. will introduce ads to Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download Edition
Interesting results of the recent TPC-H benchmark performance testing on Clustered and non-Clustered 100GB and 300GB configurations. It appears that the IBM DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (DB2 ICE) for Linux is heads above the rest.
The war of words between The SCO Group Inc. and the Linux community escalated this week in a flurry of open letters, the latest from Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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Big Blue expands its geographic ambitions for Linux, signing a deal to bundle a version of its database software with a distributor of the open-source operating system in China.
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Ars Technica has posted an article on GNOME 2.4
Linux luminary Eric S. Raymond is taking the fight with The SCO Group right back to the basics: he has developed a utility known as a comparator that looks for common code segments in large source trees and which, on an Athlon 1.8 GHz box, has an effective comparison rate of over 55,000 lines per second.
Raymond, the president of the Open Source Initiative, declined for legal reasons to say whether he had developed the comparator specifically to compare older Unix code to Linux so as to be able to refute SCO's claims that the 2.4 kernel and beyond contain proprietary Unix code.
But he did admit that "I am grinning a grin that should frighten the thieves and liars at SCO out of a week's sleep."
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Raymond, the president of the Open Source Initiative, declined for legal reasons to say whether he had developed the comparator specifically to compare older Unix code to Linux so as to be able to refute SCO's claims that the 2.4 kernel and beyond contain proprietary Unix code.
But he did admit that "I am grinning a grin that should frighten the thieves and liars at SCO out of a week's sleep."
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What would you do if you got an invoice from a company demanding payment for software that you've never bought from them? Throw it in the trash, right?
Suppose it also threatened you with legal action if you didn't comply? According to the National Fraud Information Center, you should turn it over to your local law-enforcement agents. Now, suppose the company is The SCO Group Inc. and the product is any Linux distribution using the Linux 2.4 kernel or higher.
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Suppose it also threatened you with legal action if you didn't comply? According to the National Fraud Information Center, you should turn it over to your local law-enforcement agents. Now, suppose the company is The SCO Group Inc. and the product is any Linux distribution using the Linux 2.4 kernel or higher.
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In an open letter, SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride tells open-source developers they need to do a better job of policing themselves and sets sights on SGI.
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SCO Group, which has sued IBM for more than $3 billion for allegedly moving Unix code into Linux, may also have Silicon Graphics in its crosshairs.
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Linux Compatible moves later today to a new server
Here the specifications of the new machine:
Dell PowerEdge Server
- Intel Dual Xeon 2GHz with hyperthreading
- 1GB ECC Ram
- LSI Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Controller
- 2x Seagate SCSI harddisks (73GB each)
- Intel e1000 Gigabit NIC
If you use a custom host file, please remove linuxcompatible.org 64.246.24.75 as soon as possible.
Here the specifications of the new machine:
Dell PowerEdge Server
- Intel Dual Xeon 2GHz with hyperthreading
- 1GB ECC Ram
- LSI Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Controller
- 2x Seagate SCSI harddisks (73GB each)
- Intel e1000 Gigabit NIC
If you use a custom host file, please remove linuxcompatible.org 64.246.24.75 as soon as possible.
Saw over at Neowin.net that ITworld has posted an article on SCO and Microsoft
The SCO Group Inc. has been fined $10,800 for violating a German court's ruling that SCO must cease claiming that the Linux source code violates its intellectual property, the Lindon, Utah, company confirmed on Monday.
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The SCO Group is turning up the heat in its attempt to impose Unix license fees for Linux use: It plans to begin sending invoices to companies before the month is out.
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CEO Michael Dell says that despite Dell Computer's embrace of Linux on its servers, it won't be offering customers indemnification against lawsuits from the SCO Group.
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